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Welcome to DPD!

The DPD Project is a thematic mix-CD project created by music geeks and best friends Chris Diamond, Chris Prokop, and Michael Darpino.

Each CD in the project has a theme that ties the songs on it together. For every theme we each pick five songs that we feel best represent it. The collected fifteen songs are then mixed together in alternating order based on our last names. The songs that end up on DPD are meant to be the very best songs for their particular theme.

We write liner notes for each song to explain why we picked it for that theme. The project has grown into a sort of musical memoir over the years since music has been and still is such a huge part of our lives.

Most Recent Discs:

Title	Catalog	Songs	Date
Instrument: Keyboards-Piano-Organs	DPD: 082	15	November 2nd, 2011
Song Usage in Movies and TV	DPD: 081	15	April 18th, 2009
Three of a Perfect Pair	DPD: 080	15	July 26th, 2008
Colors	DPD: 079	15	May 31st, 2008
Time Piece	DPD: 078	15	September 28th, 2007

Random DPD Pick:

House of the Rising Sun
by: The Animals
from: in "Casino"

Picked By: darpino
For: DPD: 081 - Song Usage in Movies and TV

Martin Scorsese is a master at using popular music in films. As far back as "Mean Streets" we get amazing pop gems over his unforgettable imagery. With a career spanning 5 decades(!) there are a lot of great moments of his to choose from.

My personal favorite (and I think the most brilliant) is his use of The Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" during the finale of his film Casino. This song plays over the final sequence as we watch the entire mafia-controlled world of 'old' Vegas come tumbling down with a series of arrests and incredibly violent and beautifully staged murders. The entire film parallels the rise-and-fall of mob-run Las Vegas with the personal lives of the three main characters.

In one mind-blowing sequence set to this song we get the implosion of their personal lives and the collapse of their criminal underworld. The narrative of the song about a down-and-out New Orleans gambler who knew better but kept going back anyway matches the tone of the movie's story perfectly. The music's sense of despair and decay expertly accentuates the images of old men on oxygen tanks on trial, buildings exploding, and mob-hit after mob-hit after bloody baseball-bat mob-hit. Scorsese is a genius with music and imagery and this sequence is a masterpiece.

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